As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

I sang in choir as a kid.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.